Damn! I JUST READ SCOTT'S BRILLIANT BOOK LAST FALL, and as this era is my favorite Waterboys Big Music, I just might have to spring for it in the fall--especially of Isis and the other Dylan covers are included.

This is the one Cd version I already have. Plus a regular US pressing on Lp.

I have the DE as well - been a few years since I listened to it - IIRC the bonus material was very good. Can't recall how the DE studio reissue sounded compared to the original CD release. Never had the vinyl.

In October it will be 25 years since the release of Fisherman's Blues. To celebrate, on 14th October EMI Records will release a 7-CD set titled FISHERMAN'S BOX, containing 121 tracks from the album sessions including all those on the original record and previous editions plus an incredible 85 unreleased tracks. The contents have been selected and annotated by Mike Scott, with sleevenotes by Decemberists' singer and long-time Fisherman's Blues aficionado, Colin Meloy. We'll be announcing the tracklists of the 7 CDs throughout spring & summer.

As a further celebration, The Waterboys will play a special tour of Britain and Ireland this December titled FISHERMAN'S BLUES REVISITED, reuniting Mike and Steve with Fisherman's-era members Anto Thistlethwaite and Trevor Hutchinson. The famous four will be joined by drummer Ralph Salmins and the shows will be a re-exploration of the Fisherman's Blues period. Says Mike: "We won't play the original album in order or anything tame like that. That's not the Waterboys' style. Instead we'll be roaming our old repertoire in a new expression of the freewheeling, improvised spirit of The Waterboys in those days. We want to get that old fire burning again, and I wanna hear Steve and Anto wailing like the two-man orchestra we all remember."

Tickets for the 13 shows go on sale this FRIDAY 22nd MARCH at 9am. Dates as follows:

This is the one Cd version I already have. Plus a regular US pressing on Lp.

Anyone know the best Lp version? UK?

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For the original album content, the original CD is superior. So a fan pretty much has to have both the original and the deluxe for the bonus disc. The US LP is fine if one can find one. Looks like you're set.

Fisherman's Box Tracklist CDs 1-6CD 11. Stranger To Me
2. Girl Of The North Country
3. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
4. Fisherman's Blues (Piano Version)
5. Fisherman's Blues
6. Meet Me At The Station
7. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
8. Born To Be Together
9. The Wayward Wind
10. World Party (1st Version)
11. World Party / A Golden Age
12. Sleek White Schooner
13. Drunken Head Ghost Of Rimbaud Blues
14. Sweet Thing
15. Sweet Thing (Conclusion)
16. Saints And AngelsCD 21. We Will Not Be Lovers
2. One Step Closer
3. My Beautiful Baby
4. She Could Have Had Me Step By Step
5. When The Ship Comes In
6. The Ladder
7. Will You Ever Be My Friend?
8. Too Close To Heaven (Rolling Piano)
9. Higherbound (Prototype)
10. Happy Birthday Bp Fallon
11. The Prettiest Girl In Church
12. You Don't Have To Be In The Army To Fight In The War
13. Dee Jay Way
14. Lonesome And A Long Way From Home
15. Thistlethwaite's Declaration
16. Strange Boat (First Play)
17. Lost Highway
18. Higherbound Blues
19. Let Us Be Drinking And Kissing The Women
20. Will The Circle Be Unbroken
21. Tenderfootin'
22. Too Close To Heaven
23. Space Out There, TrevorCD 31. Steve And Anto's Overture
2. Ain't Leavin, I'm Gone
3. When Will We Be Married? (1st Version)
4. When I First Said I Loved Only You, Maggie
5. Love Is Letting Go
6. On My Way To Heaven (1st Version)
7. You In The Sky (1st Version)
8. The Secret Place Of The Most High
9. Too Hot For Cleanhead
10. Wickham's Proclamation
11. Blues For Your Baby
12. Lonesome Old Wind
13. If Jimi Was Here
14. Soon As I Get Home
15. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandCD 41. Billy The Kid
2. Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down
3. Come Live With Me
4. I Miss The Road
5. Higher In Time (Two Pianos)
6. Too Hot For Cleanhead (Fast Version)
7. Higher In Time (Scottish)
8. Higherbound (3rd Tune)
9. A Golden Age
10. You In The Sky
11. I Will Meet You In Heaven Again
12. Nobody 'Cept You
13. (He Hasn't Been The Same Since) Jimmy Shand
14. Rattle My Bones And Shiver My Soul
15. The Scotsman's Delight
16. Killing My Heart
17. Industrial Mr Brown
18. Custer's Blues
19. Shall We Gather By The River
20. Higher In Time SymphonyCD 51. Higherbound (3rd Version)
2. The Grief Of Pan
3. World Party
4. Working On A Building
5. If I Can't Have You
6. Killing My Heart (2nd Version)
7. Trunk Call
8. Headphone Mix Song
9. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
10. When Will We Be Married? (2nd Version)
11. Bp's Bathtub Boogie
12. We Will Not Be Lovers (Sax Solo)
13. Heading Down The Highway
14. Strange Boat
15. Fisherman's Blues (2nd Version)
16. Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? (Bridgeman Version)
17. On My Way To Heaven
18. Let Me Feel Holy Again
19. A Home In The Meadow
20. Strange Boat (3rd Version) / The Good Ship Sirius
21. The Stolen Child (Prototype)CD 61. On My Way To Tara
2. Twa Recruitin' Sergeants
3. Incident At Puck Fair
4. And A Bang On The Ear
5. Mr Customs Man
6. Strange Boat (Acoustic)
7. Spring Comes To Spiddal
8. In Search Of A Rose (Band)
9. The Stolen Child (Piano Demo)
10. When Will We Be Married?
11. In Search Of A Rose (Duo)
12. The Good Ship Sirius (Set Of Jigs)
13. This Land Is Your Land
14. Jimmy Hickey's Waltz
15. Live Aid And After
16. Carolan's Welcome
17. When Ye Go Away
18. When Ye Go Away (Frankie's Fiddle)
19. Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?
20. The Stolen Child (Vocal Demo)
21. Dunford's Fancy
22. The Stolen Child
23. Pictish National Anthem (Comati)
24. Bo Diddley Was A Caveman
25. The Last Jam
26. Buckets Of Rain

Thanks for that! Now to compare this to what has leaked out. The only things that appear to be missing at first glance are some covers: Blowing in the Wind, My Mafia, Wallflower, Passenger, and Death is not the End. I'm wondering if these titles are different from the old title list on the website. My Beautiful Baby is undoubtedly the clean title for If You Don't **** Me.